20道医学考博英语词汇练习题

2012年医学考博英语词汇练习题（一）

Part II Vocabulary ( 10% )

Section A '

Directions: In this section all the sentences are incomplete. Four words or phrases, marked A, B, C and D, are given beneath each of them. You are to choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

1. An enormous number of people in the world's poorest countries do not have clean water or adequate sanitation

A. capacities

B. facilities

C. authorities

D. warranties

2. Family-planning clinics give out advice to people who have decided to limit the size of their families.

A. insensitive

B. interrogative

C. contraceptive

D. communicative

3. Caffeine is the __ drug that will just about get you out of the door on time to catch the bus.

A. miracle

B. myth

C. trick

D. legend

4. Today investigators are still far from a master map of the vasculature of the heart.

A. constituting

B. decoding

C. drafting

D. encoding

5. I have never 6een a more caring, group of people in my life.

A. emotional

B. impersonal

C. compulsory

D. compassionate

6. By the time I reached my residency, I treating the patient as a whole human being.

A. yearned fo r

B. broke into

C. pass for

D. made for

7. We now obtain more than two-thirds of our protein from animal sources, while our grandparents

only one-half from animal sources.

A. originated

B. digested.

C. deprived.

D. derived.

8. Obesity carries an increased risk of

A. mortality

B. mobility.

C. longevity

D. maternity.

9. The best exercise should require continuous , rather than frequent stops and starts.

A. compassion

B. acceleration.

C. frustration

D. exertion.

10. Environmental officials insist that something be done to acid rain.

A. curb

B. sue.

C. detoxify

D. condemn. Section B

Directions : Each of the following sentences has a word or phrase underlined. There are four words or phrases beneath each sentence. Choose the one word or phrase, which can best keep the meaning of the original sentence if it is substituted for the underlined part. make your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

11. It would be wildly optimistic to believe that these advances offset such a large reduction in farm- land

A. take in

B. make up

C. cut down

D. bring about

12. To begin with, it is impossible to come up with a satisfactory :definition of what constitutes hap- py and unhappy marriage.

A. explain B oppose C. represent D. propose

13. Politicians often use emotional rather than rational argents to win the support for their actions and ideas.

A. applicable

B. favorable

C. sensitive

D. reasonable

14. Tests are one way for a teacher to assess how much a student has learned.

A. observe

B. appraise

C. appreciate

D. induce

15. Through live television, the world is now able to witness historical events as they happen.

A. reserve

B. confirm

C. perceive

D. transmit

16. Most experts say that the new tax plan will have a negligible effect on the country's economic problems.

A. indefinite

B. indispensable

C. infinite

D. insignificant

17.I don't know how you'c0utd have left out the most important fact of all.

A. omitted

B. fabricated

C. pinpointed

D. embraced

18. Family and cultural beliefs and norms are important predictors of health-seeking behavior.

A. formulations

B. standards

C. principles

D. notions

19. There must be a systematic approach to retrieving notes and analyzing them.

A. regaining

B. relieving

C. reversing

D. rectifying

20. To study the "distribution of disease within an area, it is useful to plot （策划）the cases on a map.

A. mark

B. allocate （部署）

C. erase

D. pose

参考答案

1 B

2 C

3 A

4 C

5 D

6 C

7 C

8 C

9 D 10 D

11 B 12 D 13 D 14 B 15 C